Re: getting started...the hardest part
Hi Matthew, - Original Message - From: "Matthew P. Marino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You've got a long way to go. "tar" is short for tape archive. It is an > ancient unix utility that takes directory and file data and builds it into a > contiguous data base file. This is for portability and manageability. You should > have to get past "gzip" before you get to "tar". gzip is a gnu compression > utility. The mysql tarball is tar'd and gzip'd so one normally has to; > > gzip -d mysql.tar.gz > tar -xvf mysql.tar What's wrong with doing :- tar -zxvf mysql.tar.gz ?? Just about all the later tar's work fine like this, and it save doing the two step. ;) - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
Re: getting started...the hardest part
Simon, Take a look at www.sunfreeware.com. Go to their Downloading/Installation section (left panel) and grab the pkg-get script. Use pkgadd to install it. (as root: pkgadd -d BOLTpget.pkg ). Then add /usr/local/bin to your path. (PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin; export PATH) Use pkg-get to get all sorts of good utilities: pkg-get update #lots of instructions to follow pkg-get install gcc # needed to compile anything pkg-get install tar # absolutely necessary pkg-get install autoconf # useful pkg-get install bash #for sanity pkg-get install flex # if tools you are building require it pkg-get install bison # needed if you are building apache pkg-get install make # absolutely necessary pkg-get install less # helpful pkg-get install perl # most likely pkg-get install zlib # necessary if you want openssl pkg-get install bzip2 # good tool to have Now you will have to tools to build apache, mod-ssl, openssl and I just used the binary of mysql. /Duncan On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 02:25:15PM -0400, Matthew P. Marino wrote: > You've got a long way to go. "tar" is short for tape archive. It is > an ancient unix utility that takes directory and file data and builds it > into a contiguous data base file. This is for portability and > manageability. You should have to get past "gzip" before you get to > "tar". gzip is a gnu compression utility. The mysql tarball is tar'd and > gzip'd so one normally has to; > > gzip -d mysql.tar.gz tar -xvf mysql.tar > > That leaves you with a directory you need to enter and "make install". > Read the INSTALL and README files. They'll get you through it OK. The > reason for GNU TAR is that the Solaris "tar" has a 128 charachter path > limit to filenames. I think MySQL exceeds that with the windows32 stuff. > Warning! Solaris has a number of other problems out of the box. The > "cc" compiler is bad, as is the "ld" or linker libraries. If your serious > about using open source software you'd be best to go to www.gnu.org and > get; > > gzip bin utilities make tar gcc > > Your best off to compile and install them so they are custom to your > current solaris' environment. It goes something like; > > gzip -d whatever.tar.gz tar -xvf whatever.tar cd whatever ./configure > make make install > > > Compile and install all of these, add /usr/local/bin to your path; > > PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib export PATH > > You are then "in the ball park". It's a tough haul. The solaris 2.8 CD > has a lot of these gnu utilities pre-compiled for Solaris. These can help > but the practice of compiling and installing the minor support libs can > set you up better for the big installs. If solaris wasn't such a rock > solid OS on rock solid hardware I'd recommend setting up FreeBSD on an > old intel box. It's easier but not as robust as freeBSD's development > environment is "GNU/BSD" centric as are most open source efforts. > > Simon Chan wrote: > > > > Hi Everybody! > > > > Just starting to teach myself MySql and databases. I have the O'Reilly > > books on Perl DBI and Mysql, msql. > > > > My question is this: > > > > I am trying to install mysql on sparc sun solaris 2.7 machine. I found > > a binary version in the downloads page of mysql.com (is is called Sun > > Solaris (Sparc)[sun-soalris2.7-sparc] ) > > > > what exactly is the "GNU Tar" command? How do I install mysql with it? > > > > Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks everybody! > > > > Sincerely, Simon Chan -- Duncan Watson Application Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] nCUBE - Beaverton [For best reading adjust your window width to the length of this line -djw] 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345 - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
Re: getting started...the hardest part
You've got a long way to go. "tar" is short for tape archive. It is an ancient unix utility that takes directory and file data and builds it into a contiguous data base file. This is for portability and manageability. You should have to get past "gzip" before you get to "tar". gzip is a gnu compression utility. The mysql tarball is tar'd and gzip'd so one normally has to; gzip -d mysql.tar.gz tar -xvf mysql.tar That leaves you with a directory you need to enter and "make install". Read the INSTALL and README files. They'll get you through it OK. The reason for GNU TAR is that the Solaris "tar" has a 128 charachter path limit to filenames. I think MySQL exceeds that with the windows32 stuff. Warning! Solaris has a number of other problems out of the box. The "cc" compiler is bad, as is the "ld" or linker libraries. If your serious about using open source software you'd be best to go to www.gnu.org and get; gzip bin utilities make tar gcc Your best off to compile and install them so they are custom to your current solaris' environment. It goes something like; gzip -d whatever.tar.gz tar -xvf whatever.tar cd whatever ./configure make make install Compile and install all of these, add /usr/local/bin to your path; PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib export PATH You are then "in the ball park". It's a tough haul. The solaris 2.8 CD has a lot of these gnu utilities pre-compiled for Solaris. These can help but the practice of compiling and installing the minor support libs can set you up better for the big installs. If solaris wasn't such a rock solid OS on rock solid hardware I'd recommend setting up FreeBSD on an old intel box. It's easier but not as robust as freeBSD's development environment is "GNU/BSD" centric as are most open source efforts. Simon Chan wrote: > > Hi Everybody! > > Just starting to teach myself MySql and databases. > I have the O'Reilly books on Perl DBI and Mysql, msql. > > My question is this: > > I am trying to install mysql on sparc sun solaris 2.7 > machine. I found a binary version in the downloads > page of mysql.com (is is called Sun Solaris > (Sparc)[sun-soalris2.7-sparc] ) > > what exactly is the "GNU Tar" command? How do I > install mysql with it? > > Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks > everybody! > > Sincerely, > Simon Chan > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > - > Before posting, please check: >http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) >http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
RE: getting started...the hardest part
hi. "GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive." gnu tar differs from the sun version of tar that comes with solaris. type tar --help to see which tar you have. if you need the gnu version, you can get it from www.sunfreeware.com hth. -ravi -Original Message- From: Simon Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 12:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: getting started...the hardest part Hi Everybody! Just starting to teach myself MySql and databases. I have the O'Reilly books on Perl DBI and Mysql, msql. My question is this: I am trying to install mysql on sparc sun solaris 2.7 machine. I found a binary version in the downloads page of mysql.com (is is called Sun Solaris (Sparc)[sun-soalris2.7-sparc] ) what exactly is the "GNU Tar" command? How do I install mysql with it? Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks everybody! Sincerely, Simon Chan __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
